Surgical Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Youth.

Surgical Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Youth. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2020 Mar 22;: Authors: Zenno A, Nadler EP Abstract Bariatric surgery is currently the most effective weight loss treatment of severe obesity and its associated comorbidities and is being increasingly used to treat children and adolescents with severe obesity, including those with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). This review focuses on the conventional management of T2D in children and adolescents, comparison of various types of bariatric surgeries, effect of bariatric surgery on gastrointestinal physiology and metabolism, current literature on the use of bariatric surgery to treat youth with severe obesity and T2D, and the potential complications of bariatric surgery in this population. PMID: 32200501 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology - Category: Research Tags: Adv Exp Med Biol Source Type: research